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If a walk on the distinctly weird
and wild side of contemporary
cinema takes your film-festival
fancy be sure to make a date
or six with Freak Me Out. SFF’s
sidebar dedicated to everything
from heavy-duty horror to
mind-bending thrillers and
extreme arthouse attractions
is simply dying for you to meet
its gallery of very, very strange
characters. Bloodthirsty
cyborg Nazi soldiers, a creepy
backwoods family with an
extremely committed sense
of ritual, kinky suburbanites
who’ll break any taboo in the
name of entertainment and a
super-cheery North Korean
coal miner who wants to join
the circus are just a few of
the oddballs primed to make
your pupils pop and your pulse
beat a gallop.
Richard Kuipers
Guest Programmer
Rambler
Cheap Thrills
Wed 5 Jun 8:45 PM eV8
Tue 11 Jun 8:15 PM eV8
USA | 2013 | 88 mins | In English
AusTrAliAn PreMiere
Director: E.L . Katz | Screenwriters: Trent Haaga, David Chirchirillo |
Producers: Travis Stevens, Gabriel Cowan, John Suits | Cast: Pat Healy, Ethan
Embry, Sara Paxton | Distributor: Madman Entertainment
The expression ‘singing for your supper’ reaches
gruesomely funny new extremes in this nerve-jangling
urban thriller by feature-debut director E.L . Katz. At the
centre of the twisted tale is Craig, a broke family man
who’s drowning his sorrows in a bar when he bumps into
Vince, an old school buddy working as a low-rent debt
collector. Enter cashed-up Colin and glamour puss Violet,
a couple celebrating their anniversary by throwing money
around and buying drinks for strangers. That’s when the
nightmarish fun starts. The duo invite their new best
friends home and offer large sums of legal tender in return
for certain ‘tasks’ performed. Daring you not to shut your
eyes as this sadistic parlour game from hell reaches
unbearable intensity, this is a night on the town you won’t
soon forget. Cheap Thrills won the Midnight Movie
audience award at SXSW.
Comrade Kim Goes FlyinG
sun 9 Jun 8:45 PM eV8
sAT 15 Jun 9:15 PM eV8
Belgium, UK, North Korea | 2012 | 81 mins | In Korean with
English subtitles
AusTrAliAn PreMiere
Directors: Kim Gwang-hun, Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans |
Screenwriters: Sin Myong-sik, Kim Chol | Producers: Nicholas Bonner, Anja
Daelemans, Ryom Mi Hwa | Cast: Han Jong-sim, Pak Chung-guk, Ri Yong-ho
| Production Company: KFEIC, Koryo Group, Another Dimension of an Idea
What in the wide, wide world of sports do we have here?
A romantic comedy about a North Korean coal miner who
dreams of becoming a trapeze artist with the Pyongyang
Circus, that’s what! In this fabulous flick, communist
propaganda imperatives and Western cravings for
solid-gold kitsch coalesce in perfect triple-somersault
harmony, as plucky young heroine Kim Yong-mi leaps and
twirls her way into everyone’s hearts. The first North
Korean film ever at SFF, and the first co-production with
capitalist countries in 30 years, sparkles with knockabout
humour, chaste romance, well-fed cast members and
stirring socialist drama. This is a delightfully bizarre Freak
Me Out attraction precisely because it’s a mainstream
North Korean movie. It’s our 60th festival and the 60th
anniversary of armed hostilities ceasing between the two
Koreas, so hang onto your 38th parallel and let the girl with
the million-won smile entertain you.
FranKensTein’s army
sAT 8 Jun 9:15 PM eV8
Fri 14 Jun 9:15 PM eV8
Netherlands, USA | 2013 | 84 mins | In English
AusTrAliAn PreMiere
Director: Richard Raaphorst | Screenwriters: Chris W. Mitchell, Miguel
Tejada-Flores, Richard Raaphorst | Producers: Nate Bolotin, Todd Brown, Nick
Jongerius, Daniel Koefoed, Richard Raaphorst, Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian |
Cast: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym | Distributor: Madman
Entertainment
Frankenstein’s Army is a wonderfully gruesome and darkly
comic entry in the long and distinguished line of movies
about crazed Nazi scientists dedicated to giving the Third
Reich a competitive edge on the battlefield. In this cleverly
assembled mock documentary, the man in the blood-
spattered white coat is none other than a descendant of a
certain Victor Frankenstein. His work-in-progress: an
unstoppable army stitched together from body parts of dead
soldiers, bits and pieces of machinery and household
appliances. Enter a Russian combat cameraman and his
squad into the doctor’s isolated lab and it’s not long before
all gory hell breaks loose. With barely a hint of computer-
generated imagery, and featuring a platoon’s worth of the
most imaginatively designed and vicious man-monsters
you’re ever likely to see, this auspicious feature debut
by Dutch filmmaker Richard Raaphorst is a top-notch
old-school gore shocker that knows what you came for
and gives it to you with interest.
The rambler
Mon 10 Jun 8:30 PM eV8
sun 16 Jun 9:00 PM eV8
USA | 2013 | 97 mins | In English
AusTrAliAn PreMiere
Director, Screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder | Producers: Nate Bolotin, Roger M.
Mayer, Christo Dimassis, James Lejsek, Clayton Young | Cast: Dermot
Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, James Cady | Distributor: Anchor Bay
Entertainment
Road movie, horror flick, UFO fantasy, thriller and
neo-Western musical rom-com: these are just a few of the
terms you might try and apply to this disturbing and utterly
enthralling piece of cinemagic by young director Calvin Lee
Reeder (The Oregonian, 2011). In an inspired piece of
casting, Dermot Mulroney sheds his nice-guy persona as
an unnamed and possibly insane ex-con travelling to his
brother’s farm in Oregon. The weird path he takes brings
forth a sideshow scientist who believes he can record
dreams on VHS, an old geezer obsessed with Frankenstein
and a fetching young blonde who shows up just about
everywhere. Then there are the flashing lights in the New
Mexico sky and the voices in his head. Beautifully filmed in
widescreen and packed with provocative ideas and
mind-blowing images, The Rambler is a ride on the very,
very strange side.
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013
SFF.ORG.Au
48 FREAK ME OuT